Archive
30 Nov

Glocal

In A Penny for My Thoughts? Maureen Dowd interviews James Macpherson, the self-styled, bow-tied “pioneer” of “glocal” news. Macpherson owns a Pasadena news outlet that fired all professional journalism staff […]

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28 Nov

European news network in English

The English online version of German newsmagazine Der Spiegel and NRC.nl/international, the English-language Web site of Netherlands daily newspaper NRC Handelsblad, announced a new partnership “to launch a Europe-wide network […]

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28 Nov

Huffing and puffing and …

Arianna Huffington’s new book contends new and old media “are rapidly joining together to bring out the best in each other,” said a Reuters story, based on a pre-book-launch interview […]

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27 Nov

Paper dreams: the shift to recycled paper

In May 2008 Indigo Books & Music Inc., Canada’s largest magazine seller, published its Ancient Forest Friendly Paper Policy, which outlines a timeline for magazine and book vendors to introduce […]

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26 Nov

Pressure and lethal assignments

Hours after BBC journalist Kate Peyton arrived in Mogadishu, she was shot in the back and died. That was in February, 2005, and now a coroner’s report concludes she didn’t […]

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25 Nov

Slow down, you blog too fast

The New York Times has noticed the trend of “slow blogging,” which it calls a small, quirky movement “inspired by the slow food movement, which says that fast food is […]

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24 Nov

Membership in press councils should be compulsory: Moon

“Newspapers and news magazines should seek to revitalize the provincial/regional press councils and ensure that identifiable groups are able to pursue complaints if they feel they have been unfairly represented […]

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23 Nov

People of the screen

“When technology shifts, it bends the culture,” observes Wired writer Kevin Kelly in a long, thinky piece in the New York Times Magazine’s Idea Lab section. Journalism was one of […]

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22 Nov

Moon walk

You can almost hear the huffing and puffing of the unsigned Canadian Press reporter who wrote about the “forced march” engineered by Pauline Marois. “Bleary-eyed and freezing, a group of […]

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21 Nov

Online comments “messy and flawed” but important, says Ingram

The Globe and Mail‘s tech blogger and recently appointed communities editor, Mathew Ingram, digs into the many issues surrounding online comments on news stories in a recent blog post. His […]

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